Community Involvement

August 2006 Usage Statistics

.	Avg	Max
Hits per Hour	245	995
Hits per Day	5902	8546
Files per Day	3128	5066
Pages per Day	3105	5209
Visits per Day	983	1368
KBytes per Day	35025	113297

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CCIL is much more than just another Internet Service Provider, however. There are several organizations that have used our system for the good of the community.

The Chester County Homeless Shelters list vacancies so that others shelters can see were there might be an open bed that night.

The Chester County Cerebral Palsy Society has a support group that communicates by e-mail since many can not leave home.

We host the WC Senior Center's web page.

We host the web site for a local fire company, several churches, a soccer team, softball teams, we even hosted the West Chester Bicentennial web page last year. We hosted a web page for the West Chester PTOC to post information about the school board candidates.

For more information about our community involvement see the Friends of CCIL web page.

Chester County InterLink is one of the few remaining Free-Nets left in the nation. Very few places can boast that they have a volunteer organization providing access to the Internet for free and with out commercialization. Chester County is truly connected community.

Technical Department Takes an Innovative Approach

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We must not forget the outstanding performance of our lead technical support members, Doug Purdy and John Hamilton at handling user requests and connection problems. Also, LinuxForce's needed technical support by Stephen Gran and Chris Fearnley. Thank you team for putting it all together.

This past year CCIL and LinuxForce worked together improving spam filtering, and response to users connection problems. Their quick response prevented extended blocking of CCIL by Comcast, because a hacker in the UK started sending spam through from our servers to Comcast servers. A quick patch to programming prevented further intrusion by outside sources. Tech Support enlisted help from CCIL staff to test several open source e-mail clients. SquirrelMail came out to be the winner. We wanted its user interface to be similar to CCIL WebMail, and at the same time, having improved folder functions.

^Famous

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"Squirrelmail doesn’t use the word 'expunge'

to empty the trash! I've grown to love that word so

 much! I've explained it about a million times in my

short tenure with CCIL".

..... Doug Purdy

P A G E 2	FALL 2006